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Originally Posted by tlarkin
It also slowly disables features until you buy and activate. Which is why it is so DRM heavy, which is one reason why I won't support vista. That, and it doesn't offer any performance gain and hardly any benefit gain from upgrading. However, that is an old and busted argument and I will stop right there.
As far as licensing goes, read the EULA, if you can stomach it. You will clearly see that in a trial period you are obligated to certain policies and how MS has the right to do whatever they want while in eval period so on and so forth and all that legalese. Notice the DRM clauses as well, and notice how you never own it, you just lease it.
trust me, its a marketing scheme to lock you into buying it. Think about it, how many people will want to just fork out the money after using it for 60 days then getting a ton of features reduced, over reinstalling the OS or switching to another OS?
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Which features are locked out? When I waited 30 days before activating mine I didn't notice anything that no longer functioned or had limited usability. The only thing I noticed was a dialog box which said you have XX amount of days to activate.
If you ask me Windows XP was more strict when it came to licensing, since you couldn't run Windows Update without your copy being validated/activated, you couldn't download many things from the Microsoft website, and it wouldn't even let you install XP without a legit CD Key.